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PROF. GODDARD'S SCHEME FOR THIS SUMMER.

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The American papers just now devoting much space to the coming attempt of Profesor B. II. Goddard to fire a rocket with such initial velocity and directness of alm that it will reach the moon, a distance of rather lus than quarter of million miles

THE SEVEN HANDS. AN ANTHROPOLOGIST'S NOTES IN SCOTLAND.

of

In a lecture reported in the Sestman Mr. Nicol Bruce said there were seven gederal types of hand. First, and lowest of " they had the elementary "type" extrane thickes and short, thumpy, and brutal looking. This type was, indori, but one removed above the brum creation.

mainly in Abroad he had found the type certain party

only-Africa Countries

in Scotland such The Professor, who is a director of the and Germany,

betwem, chiefly Physics Dept at Clark Univ., Worcester, banda were fear and Massachusetts, has been, working at the found among the unskilled alien artisans So project for several years, and has the fin in parts of the wild and woolly West, ancial backing of the famous Smithsonian far as could beugel, the one win

Vador the

of this type was threefold-to eat the object Institution of Washington. aupions of that organisation experiments to drink, then, to step,

Secondly, there was the quar or useful have been carried out with rockets so de-

that after they are fred they are practical types with palms and Enger and with long thumbs, high-set

rrat altitude by sucassien die Abroad this hand was

very not

charges of explosives in small combustion and chambers, and when the rocket has attain ed its maximum beight a wond nekut is discharged at a velocity suthcient to carry it berod the resting in dium of the. earth's atmosphere.

mdng the Gurkhas (those vallent sons of Tibs), the Japanee, and.

herd it markedly in two plac

North Irish. At home the lecturer Dundee and Aberdo The possessors u this type were esentially logical and hard-

incli

the thing of thi orld than to the things of the next, and with or no imagination. They solid, and wug- wem, nevertit

Goddard that it is possible to sive a pro perly constructed rocket a suffernt voir

The researches have satisfies! Proc. hendid, is punctual and methodical,

city-about sen miles a wood-ta Nakn

it

ful

interruption leur douce, and doggn/ "by determi

of the earth gravitation, and this next plished it will, says Prof. Goxidlagal, **& £21– time its Right without through interplanetary spac-

moon.

th

the

In each of the nine places and districts

exprci- specified, ally the first two, the wonderful linessing ling of the practical inhabitants could sadly distinguish in the dark between n worn shilling and an old half-penny.

THE NERVOUS TYPE

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The rocket is made of steel and is shaped like a cigar, with a narrow tapered head. It contains inside a small internal com bustion engine, ignited by smokelos nitro-

Thirdly, the spatulate or active nervous. cellulose, and once free vi terrestring gra vitation continuous discharges of the interstrooked, and with large pads at the anger- typ, in appearance usually sprawly sad aal apparatus by mms of an ingenions

mechanism, will do the rest. tips, somewhat like, the spatula used by ovided the rocki obe the theoretical islamista to pound their powders. Abroad enlculations of its designes, it is expeted they would find this type predominato Americaus to his the moon thirty-six hours after it among the French and begins is fight, and to ensure that it wiltAt home it was the one hand to he seen reach its billet it will be necessary to in the main on all sides in the city and

Glas of

This type calculate-not a dificult problem, as the suburbs mption, of the moon in its orbit is known always pounding away at something or with red accuracy-xactly where the other, activ, tireles, restless workers, ever very emotional, imaginative and mpon will be at any time, and range un

bit demonstrative, that part of the heavens.

confident. So but the arrival of the projectile du but still quite self

Fourthly, they had the philosophic the moon can be seen it will contain a quantity of Viewer Bash powder, which will hand, usually thio and shim, and with log bony, knotty-jointed fingers. Abroad be ignited by the impact, and excula the type was very prominent among the tions show that the brilliant "ght this gives off will need less than 3 lb to enable Greek Mohammedans, and Turks. This nd had its being in Scotland with the flash to be visible in a 12 in. telesess band of Ancient Atheus lived today, and

moyed The attempt is to be males in the early

th- summer, most probably when the moo l in the crescent phar, so that the fate or jointed fingers denoted carefulnes which will signal the contre of the racket and detail, keen analysis, refection and had the core or artistic with our satellite viny aur on the dark order, both in work and study.

they Fifth Bux fangers tapering and poin- unillaminated region, and this increas hand, with the propect of its visibility.

tod. This was the one outstanding type That the project it not so visionary as it in the Sunny South. In Scotland be bad as is evident from the co-operation of observed it predominate in four places the Smithsonian Institution. It has been Inverurss, Perth, Oban, and in certain discussed and agroved by the American part of Edinburgh. The hardis, usually Asistion for the Advancement of soft and full and fleshly, pointed to a Sciener, and, speaking of Professor Goldener tozards indolenes, their dard's pimeer experiments, the late Sir being very native to all the brautis of Janus Dewar expressed the opinion that exquisite and fair surroundings, refine they pointed to the possibility of ultimately went colour. literature, art, and music, attaining the nears high velocity to The women of this type he had also notest

usually married for love. overene the earth's gravitation.

of modern Athens, The knot,

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HAND OF THE IDEILIST. Sixthly, the porchie or idealistic haude TEN ACRES OF RESTAURANTS. | 4 refined cross between the philosophic and

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The catering side of the British Empire Coty, and in the booklined studies

of a very few Scottish mat. He re-

garded this type the highest develop-

In 1

ni of the hand on the pady mental plane, but from the worldly standpoint it was, by no means the most successful. Its posse-ors often lived faraway world of dreams aud idents. In the Uni- versities of Edinburgh and of Glasgow, strange to say such hands were now em

picuous by their alenes, the realities of a som life

ideality coining far before the taught,

Exhibition claims to be the most advanced

Two. of the whole enterprise at Wembley, or three of the cafes and restaurants ar already in operation and a Bumber of others could be opened immediately.

Messrs. J. Lyons and Co., Limited, have the contract for the entire catering both For visitors and stuff, and in alf the will 54 licensed cafes and restaurant to. These will be of every type. At one end of the scale there is Lucullus, a estar not which is being decorated what bizarre style, and, in addition to the restaurant proper, will canin a number of semi-enclosed loggias, which en he

When the xed for

private partics. weather permit, the restaurant service will be extended to the last in front, and dum floor is being spesially laid. The sesiting accommodation will be approxin ately 1,000. The next stage is the restaur- ant for table d'hote meals on the lines GF 1 Trocadero Restaurant.

Loth with teachers and with

Senthly, and lastly, they had the mixed hand-an aggregation of some or all of the types-the typical hand of the Tersatile Sisenach far south of the Bor ders, with fingers often all differing from one another one round, ong square, one spatulate, em pointed-or with the pulm of one type and some or all the Sagers mixed. This type was to be found in every corner of Caledon; and why? Breat they never got far from their friends, the ladies.

One of the busiest restaurants in the exbibtion grounds will be the grill-room, with a seating accommodation of 1,300, The servies here will be also based on the Trendero. Further down the scale are the Rent

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